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magazines carrying such materials—please send me data
on the questions indicated which
have not been printed,
if
available.
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V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Chairman, C.P.C.
First published in 1 9 4 5
Printed from the original
in Lenin Miscellany XXXV
56
TO M. A. KRUCHINSKY
*
31.I.1921
Comrade Kruchinsky:
I have received your reports on the People’s Commissar-
iat for Agriculture.
5 2
I have read them and reported to the
C.C. members.
By appointing Osinsky, we, the Central Committee, have
done what we could. Osinsky saw me yesterday and told
me that he was getting a number of local comrades, peasants,
to join in the work.
Why are you dissatisfied with Osinsky? The whole R.C.P.
group of the Eighth Congress of Soviets had a high opinion
of him over the seed campaign.
Which Communist workers are dissatisfied with the work
and why?
Please let me have concrete instructions and proposals.
We in the C.C. believe that we have done everything pos-
sible for the time being; we are waiting to see the results
of the work of the new Collegium of the People’s Commis-
sariat for Agriculture and think that they will be good.
With communist greetings,
N. Lenin
First published in 1 9 6 5
Printed from the original
in Collected Works,
Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 5 2
*
On the envelope Lenin wrote: “To Mikh. Kruchinsky,
member of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee (please sign
for letter) (from Lenin).”—Ed.
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TO M. I. FRUMKIN. FEBRUARY 1, 1921
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TO N. P. GORBUNOV
Comrade Gorbunov:
We should make inquiries and find out whether anything
can be done in this case to help the mining industry. Take
away what can be spared?
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31/I. Lenin
Written on January 3 1 , 1 9 2 1
First published on January 2 1 ,
Printed from the original
1 9 2 7 in Pravda No. 1 7
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TO M. I. FRUMKIN
*
1/II-1921.
Comrade Frumkin:
We have been receiving (from inside and outside) more
and more information about the absolutely intolerable “in-
dependence” of the Ukraine in matters of the People’s
Commissariat for Food.
You must dig right down to the whole truth, which is
obviously being concealed from us (to some extent prob-
ably unwittingly, by conniving at those whose concealment
is deliberate). This is a serious matter, and we shall not
let it go at that; we shall find out the whole truth.
We shall fully expose the role of Peshekhonov (worse
than any whiteguard), who had clearly been fooling the
Ukrainian C.C. (we do not yet know through whom he had
done that, but we shall find out).
But just now, and above all, you are fully responsible
for finding out and getting at all the facts, and must see to
it that you are not duped by Peshekhonov and those who
have been deceived by the Peshekhonovs.
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Awaiting your reply,
With communist greetings,
Lenin
First published in 1 9 6 5
Printed from the original
in Collected Works,
Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 5 2
*
See Document 62 of this volume.—Ed.
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TO D. B. RYAZANOV
Comrade Ryazanov:
Do you at the library have a collection of all the letters
of Marx and Engels from the newspapers? from separate
magazines?
For example, about materialism in Leipzieger Volkszeit-
ung, 1894?
The one from Vorwärts about Beesley
*
? (it may not be
spelled quite that way: English professor, Comtist, who
knew Marx?)
And similar other things.
Is there a catalogue of all the letters of Marx and Engels?
Could I have it to go over for about a week, i.e., the
catalogue?
Yours,
Lenin
Written before February 2 , 1 9 2 1
First published in 1 9 3 0
Printed from the original
in the book Na boyevom postu.
Sbornik k shestidesyatiletiyu
D. B. Ryazanova (Collection
for D. B. Ryazanova’s Sixtieth
Birthday), Moscow
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TO D. B. RYAZANOV
Comrade Ryazanov:
I have a great request:
Return
1) Do you, by any chance, know
where
the books.
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the underscored passages in Engels’s letters
come
from?
2) Has this ever been published in full and where?
3) If it has, can we find and get it?
4) Could we buy the letters of Marx and Engels, or
photographs of them, from Scheidemann & Co. (you know,
this dirty lot will sell anything)?
*
Edward Spencer Beesly.—Ed.
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